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Hugh Ryan on his Boston Review article, "Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?: Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again."

Jeff Dorchen shares another Moment of Truth.

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Matthew King on his New Republic article, “Big Tech’s Waste ‘Solutions’ Are a Scam." https://newrepublic.com/article/173780/big-techs-waste-solutions-scam

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Clark Randall on his Boston Review article, "Bond Villains: How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality."

Sebastian looks at how the United States ended up with a drinking age most other countries laugh at - and what that means for Americans.

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The Baffler's George Scialabba on his latest article, "Kudzu: The kingdom of private equity."

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Geographer Katie J. Wells joins Chuck to discuss Uber's takeover of urban transportation. Wells is the author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen from Princeton University Press.

Sebastian Wuepper returns with another Past Inside The Present. In this segment, Sebastian historicizes the ongoing catastrophe in Hawai'i. If you can, please consider donating to victims of the wildfires, many of whom lost everything. Here are some ways you can help:

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Chucks describes his recent family vacation.

Raina Lipsitz discuses her Verso Books title, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics."

Rotten History of the 1953 coup d’état in Iran.

We return to Hell today with Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers, 2023).

Chuck interviews historian Gerald Horne on his 2022 book from International Publishers, The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.

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Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men under the long reach of slavery, White supremacy and capitalist exploitation in the American 20th century, and his book The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing from International Publishers.

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Historian Gerald Horne explores the terrains of race, religion, capital and slavery across the 16th century trans-Atlantic world - as European powers pillaged Africa and the Americas of both people and resources, their destruction created the enduring formations of life in the 21st century - White supremacy and rapacious capitalism.

Gerald is author of the book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century from Monthly Review Press.

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